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Write Juju Charms, we’ll pick up the tab

by Jorge O. Castro on 17 September 2015

I am happy to announce the start of Juju Charm Developer program. It’s a simple premise, if you are interested in working on Juju charms, we will pay for your cloud time on Amazon Web Services. All we ask is that you share this work with the community. Download and install Juju Visit developer.juju.solutions and fill […]

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The future of access networks

by Maarten Ectors on 16 September 2015

IoT, Docker, Big Data, Cloud, mobile apps, Video on Demand, etc. It seems like innovation is accelerating but without a roadmap, business plan or strategy. Google and co. seem to have their eye set on taking over the telecom business. Google’s global fiber network, SDN, Fiber, Fi, OnHub, Android, Hangout, Brillo, White Spaces Spectrum Dat […]

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5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

by Arturo Suarez on 1 September 2015

After the remarkable success of the recent OpenStack days in Taiwan, Seattle and Silicon Valley (Benelux is next, September 17th), and as we head towards the next OpenStack Design Summit in Tokyo, I feel it is a great time to give you the following piece of advice: You should learn OpenStack. The sooner, the better. Let me give you 5 reas […]

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A midsummer night’s Juju Office Hours

by Jorge O. Castro on 24 August 2015

Our biweekly catchup of all things happening in the land of Juju. Here’s our summary of today’s session, first off, all the URLs we discuss during the list, followed by some handy shortcuts if you want to skip around this episode. https://github.com/juju/charmstore/blob/v5-unstable/docs/bundles.md https://jujucharms.com/docs/devel/wip-sys […]

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Deploying a Juju Cluster on Brightbox Cloud

by Canonical on 24 August 2015

Juju is described as a state-of-the-art, open source, universal model for service oriented architecture and service oriented deployments. It takes the configuration scripts written in other tools and wraps them into a charm which can be deployed either with the Juju CLI tool or its GUI interface. And it’s really easy to run up a […]

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Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

by Dustin Kirkland on 10 August 2015

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity.  Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more of our art, architecture, and culture throughout human history.I think of the Golden Rat […]

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Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

by Randall Ross on 4 August 2015

A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all about service modelling, orchestration, and making all the container-y Docker-y stuff work we […]

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Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

by Ryan Finnie on 4 August 2015

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team is responsible for […]

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Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

by Canonical on 3 August 2015

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and […]